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Filton Abbey Wood has had schedule 17 hours for a ticket booth staffed during the evening peak for as long as I can remember. During Wessex Trains days this was a man in the hut with an Avantix machine like many other stations in the area such as Yate and Keynsham. When the Greater Western...

You may be interested in a thread from last time this topic came up, which also includes a link to the time before when someone asked this. https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-busiest-unstaffed-station.240448/ This refers to numbers from pre-Covid so things may have changed since then...

Note that the TRU is not a TfL document but a document for London Underground staff, therefore any initiatives being done by Elizabeth line and their staff will not be detailed within it.

ls there really much cost of keeping a station open in such the circumstances, especially at low-speed locations such as this? Many of the Beeching-era closures took place at a time where stations were quite heavily manned, and were criticised for failing to consider other ways of reducing costs...

The second through platform at Princes Risborough was reinstated some 25 years ago, in 1998. And in any case you could argue it doesn’t meet the requirements for the thread as it was not a single through platform on a double track line, but only ended up like this when the line was...

Cubic Gates do, S&B don’t (they display a reason, the reason list being in the first list that I linked to in the post you quoted). Given the OP said the barrier tells him to “seek attention,” he will be using Cubic gates; the actual wording being “seek assistance” but this is nothing like what...

If you watch this video you can see why it may be an innocent mistake, as the producer for the group said that he is making something for Japanese TV, and also refers to the pianist being Japanese. Brendan actually starts the video by saying they are Chinese but the producer ‘corrects’ him by...

On the gates themselves there will be a display which will have a two or three digit code; you can compare that to these lists to see the problem. https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/passenger_oriented_display_error/response/161338/attach/3/POD%20Codes.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1...

I believe the purpose of this thread is not to discuss examples like Liverpool Lime St or Paddington, where there are individual platforms ungated, but locations where some platforms are ungated but where it is possible to get to a platform that is otherwise gated from an ungated entrance

Chorleywood isn’t quite the same, as the Northbound platform is ungated but the subway doesn’t provide access to the Southbound platform which is gated, as the gate at the top of the ramp is ordinarily closed. This contrasts with the next station down the line, Chalfont & Latimer, where there...

You might be interested to read this thread from the last time this question came up https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/neilston-on-glasgow-central-departure-boards.176224/

To be fair even London Underground Met line stopping patterns aren’t consistent. Whilst Northbound trains are timetabled to stop at Wembley Park, southbound Fast and Semifast are not. However during periods of service disruption in order to get trains back to timetable, the Controller may...

Of interest to many in this thread, there is a TV programme on Channel 4 right now which features the piano in question. For the purpose of the show it appears to have been put on a stage in the middle of the concourse and has attracted a small crowd around it.

As soon as the signal failure at Southall was cleared from the TfL status board, this was replaced with minor delays on the western section for a track fault at Taplow.

There is also the possibility they are trying to work out what type of investigation this requires. Since there have been at least two full investigations and reports (Kentish Town and Lewisham) that I can think of, it may be that they are assessing the initial evidence to determine whether a...

Or even, with the upcoming acceptance of Contactless Payment Cards at Guildford, a method of allowing customers to touch in and out for zero fare, like at Southwark LUL station.

lf it counts, Bristol Temple Meads has parking underneath the old trainshed. l think there was a plan a few years ago to reinstate some platforms in there post signal box decommissioning but this may have been scrapped now?

If something is being replaced like-for-like then Network Rail aren't obliged to provide disabled access. Examples of this are at Brigg, which in 2016 had its footbridge between the two platforms condemned but was replaced with a modern footbridge which, like the original, only had steps. Also...

This is Network Rail infrastructure and has been ongoing since yesterday evening. It is caused by damage to a set of points at Richmond, believed to have been caused by a run-through. Network Rail could not locate anyone with applicable licensing to carry out required isolations and thus the...

Having got back from Zurich yesterday, I wonder how much of the retail on stations is related to the bonkers Sunday trading laws that seem commonplace in German speaking countries, including Switzerland. Most of the stations which have exceptions from their Sunday trading laws seem to have...